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Subject: [AREA-STUDIES-NETWORK] Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Report: JISC Collections Selection - now freely available to UK Universities, Colleges and Research Councils
Message from JISC
Dear Colleagues,
I'm pleased to announce that JISC Collections is making a special selection from Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports freely available to universities, colleges and research councils in the United Kingdom: http://www.jisccollections.ac.uk/catalogue/fbis
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 70 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe, and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996, available exclusively from Readex, constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides insight into the second half of the 20th century; many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred.
FBIS Daily Reports, 1974-1996 consist of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the globe. These media sources were monitored in their languages of origin, translated into English, and issued by an agency of the US government.
FBIS Daily reports available to members of JISC Collections cover the following regions and dates:
* Middle East and North Africa, 1974-1987
* Near East and South Asia, 1987-1996
* South Asia, 1980-1987
* Sub-Saharan Africa, 1974-1980 and Africa, 1987-1996
* Eastern Europe, 1974-1996
This agreement was selected following a procurement for content in the UK funding councils strategically important and vulnerable subject areas.
These subject areas include:
* Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects
* Area studies and related minority languages, including:
* Arabic and Turkish language studies and other Middle Eastern area studies, former Soviet Union Caucasus and central Asian area studies
* Japanese, Chinese Mandarin and other Far Eastern languages and area studies
* courses relating to recent EU accession countries, especially those in Eastern Europe and the Baltic region
* Modern foreign languages
* Quantitative social science
* Islamic Studies
* Gaelic Language
FBIS Daily Report received the highest marks of any of the bids received, and the markers were of the opinion that the content was of high relevance to all those studying the area studies above, but also any researcher with an interest in Middle East and Islamic studies.
Furthermore, the markers were of the opinion that this was primary research data that was unlikely to be available generally.
For further information and to sign up please visit:
http://www.jisccollections.ac.uk/catalogue/fbis
Thanks and best wishes,
Liam
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